Of course, Jobs knew at the time he was blowing smoke - or perhaps a reality distortion field set in. They have their own release schedules, which are almost always different than ours, so the Java we ship is always a version behind. 21, 2010, the MacRumors forum said that Jobs replied to a concerned Java developer, claiming, 'Sun (now Oracle) supplies Java for all other platforms. Apple had never supported Java clients in its iOS. Developers should not rely on the Apple-supplied Java runtime being present in future versions of Mac OS X.' At the same time, Apple stopped accepting apps for the Mac App Store that relied on the Java Runtime Environment. 20, says, 'The Java runtime ported by Apple and that ships with Mac OS X is deprecated. The Mac OS X Developer Library post for Oct.
Steve Jobs dropped Java for the Mac in October 2010, removing it as part of the standard OS X install.
